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Post Holdings, Inc.

POST

Consumer Defensive · 81.02 -1.6% today

Isolated · not yet confirmedMarket checked 9 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4

Market read

Post Holdings, Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.

The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 17 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 12 directly disclosed connections are confirming.

What changed
  • Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
Company-1.6% todayVolume comparison unavailable
Market group0 of 17 activePackaged Foods · unavailable
Disclosed network0 of 8 confirmingNo filing-linked name is confirming now
What would change this read
  • Egg-product sales fell as lower prices coincided with 9% lower volumes and normalized demand.
  • Side-dish pricing lifted sales despite 1% lower volumes, creating a specific price-versus-volume exposure to compare.

Invalidation: The isolated read changes if POST's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.

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Research brief

The story so far

Consumer Defensive · Packaged Foods

The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 17 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 12 directly disclosed connections are confirming.

Evidence that supports

No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.

Evidence that challenges
  • Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
  • Operating margin fell 2.1 percentage points.
  • Net income decreased 41.7% versus the comparable filing period.
What would clarify the read
  • Egg-product sales fell as lower prices coincided with 9% lower volumes and normalized demand.
  • Side-dish pricing lifted sales despite 1% lower volumes, creating a specific price-versus-volume exposure to compare.

Company research

Understand the business, not just the ticker

As of Sep 9, 2026
Business model and earnings drivers

Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.

Key research questions
  • Which operating variable is changing?
  • Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
  • What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
Annual periods9
Price observations326
Usable filing statements175
Verified relationships11
Evidence supporting the case
  • Operating cash flow covered net income at 2.97x in the latest annual period.
  • Foreign exchange has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
  • Pricing and mix has repeated favorable evidence across 5 filings.
  • Material customer WMT most recently reported revenue +6.9% year over year.
Evidence challenging the case
  • Input and raw-material costs has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
  • Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
Questions before a position
  • P/E is 39% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
  • EV/sales is 33% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Longer-term price context

Price as of Sep 9, 2026

81.02
6m-22.1%12m-23.8%24m
Annual trajectory

Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.

PeriodRevenueYoYDiluted EPSShare change
2021-09-30$5.0B+5.7%$2.38-5.2%
2022-09-30$5.9B+17.5%$12.09-4.0%
2023-09-30$7.0B+19.5%$4.82+6.9%
2024-09-30$7.9B+13.3%$5.64-0.1%
2025-09-30$8.2B+3.0%$5.51-6.0%

What management says matters

Persistent and emerging business drivers

Capital investment and capacitymixed · 5 filings
Nine months ended June 30, 2025 Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended June 30, 2025 was $473.4 million, primarily driven by net cash payments of $124.4 million related to the PPI acquisition and capital expenditures of $360.5 million, pa…
10-Q · Aug 6, 2026
Demand and volumemixed · 5 filings
Sales of side dishes increased $11.7 million, or 3%, driven by 4% higher volumes primarily due to new private label product introductions.
10-Q · Aug 6, 2026
Foreign exchangepositive · 5 filings
Segment profit for the nine months ended June 30, 2026 increased $15.2 million, or 28%, when compared to the prior year period, primarily driven by favorable product mix toward higher margin products, lower manufacturing costs of $2.6 million and a favorable…
10-Q · Aug 6, 2026
Input and raw-material costsnegative · 5 filings
These negative impacts were partially offset by lower raw material costs of $8.6 million.
10-Q · Aug 6, 2026

Valuation discipline

Descriptive valuation snapshot

Price/sales 0.6× · EV/sales 1.5×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.

Scenario scaffold

Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.

Price action

How the market is pricing the story

81.02-1.6% today

Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 9 Sept, 15:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.

Developments

No sourced recent-development timeline yet

Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for POST. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.

Business and financial condition

Reported financial figures are not available yet

Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.

Latest filing assessment

The latest filing shows material pressure

10-Q filed 2026-08-06 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-08.

cautious
OperationscautiousEvidence score -4
liquidityneutralEvidence score 0
valuationmixed

Capital and cash conversion

Cash conversion improved

supportive

Capital-spending intensity declined while free-cash-flow margin improved.

Capital spending YoY
-19.6%
Capital spending / revenue
+4.7%
Free-cash-flow margin
+6.5%
FCF margin change
+0.8 pts

Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.

What improved

No thresholded improvement was identified.

What weakened

  • Revenue decreased 1.8% versus the comparable filing period.
  • Operating margin fell 2.1 percentage points.
  • Net income decreased 41.7% versus the comparable filing period.

Filing receipts

Sales of side dishes were up $2.8 million, or 4%, on 1% lower volumes, driven by higher average net selling prices primarily due to list price increases.

Nine months ended June 30, 2025 Cash used in investing activities for the nine months ended June 30, 2025 was $473.4 million, primarily driven by net cash payments of $124.4 million related to the PPI acquisition and capital expenditures of $360.5 million, partially offset by proceeds from the sale of property of $12.1 million.

Egg product sales were down $16.6 million, or 32%, driven by lower average net selling prices due to the lapping of HPAI pricing in the prior year period and 9% lower volumes primarily due to the normalization of egg demand in the current year period .

Historical filing backfill generated after the original filing window. It is not part of Jodie's live track record.

Business ecosystem

The relationships behind POST

Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.

Depends on

SYY42.0% of POSTcustomerNov 21, 2025

The largest customers of our Foodservice segment, Sysco and US Foods, accounted for 42.0% of the segment’s net sales in fiscal 2025.

USFD42.0% of POSTcustomerNov 21, 2025

The largest customers of our Foodservice segment, Sysco and US Foods, accounted for 42.0% of the segment’s net sales in fiscal 2025.

Depended on by

PTONPeloton Interactive, Inc.supplierAug 7, 2025

As such, we currently do not expect to add-back in the future any additional supplier settlements related to that effort.

Filing peers

Companies whose filings use similar operating language.

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What is moving around it

Live connections

POST is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Packaged Foods. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.

Context history

Theme membership history

No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.